Chris Steele
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| No. 18 – Retired | |||||||||||||||
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| Position: | Cornerback | ||||||||||||||
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| Born: | July 10, 2003 (aged 57) New Orleans, Louisiana | ||||||||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 205 lb (93 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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| High school: | Archbishop Rummel | ||||||||||||||
| College: | Florida | ||||||||||||||
| DSFL Draft: | 2027 / Round: | ||||||||||||||
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| Roster status: | Active | ||||||||||||||
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Chris "Lightning" Steele (born January 10, 2003) is an American football cornerback. He played college football for the University of Florida before entering the 2027 DSFL Draft (S12).
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Early years
Steele was born in Louisiana, then moved to Florida to compete at the highest level at IMG Academy for 3 years. Steele's senior season ended up playing out back in Louisiana at Archbishop Rummel when he was forced to transfer from IMG after he was caught up in a broad-reaching recruiting scandal involving University of Florida coach Dean Millens. Despite no longer playing for one of the most dominant high school teams in the country, Steele managed to show out at Rummel during his senior year, and not only managed to maintain his offer list but actually added a few new schools. In a highly publicized commitment at the Under Armor All-American Game, Steele chose Florida over hometown LSU, prompting many to wonder whether that recruiting scandal ever really blew over or not...
College career
Steele played limited minutes for the Gators as a true freshman, sitting behind future first round picks at cornerback, Marco Wilson and Chris Henderson. Millens managed to set up Wilson so that he got plenty of snaps in four games while still being able to redshirt based off an artistic reading of an esoteric NCAA eligibility rule (Y’all seeing a theme here?)
As Steele spent more time in Coach Nick “I’m a Savage” Savage’s strength and conditioning program and in the film room absorbing the playbook on both sides of the ball, he became a more consistent option for the Gators during his redshirt freshman season. The real innovation here is when Millens tried Steele out at the famous “Percy position” during a late-season game in which the Gator’s star H-Back suffered a season-ending ankle injury. Taking a shovel pass and juking two defenders on the way to a fifty yard go-ahead touchdown officially brought Steele into the limelight and secured his place a key player on defense and defense
Steele declared for the draft at the start of his redshirt sophomore, proving the old anecdote about the best players never sticking around for more than around three years regardless of how hard you try to keep them. Millens extensively used Steele as both a versatile slot corner that could lock down a team’s best receiver and pressure the quarterback out of the secondary and as an elite offensive threat who got 6-8 touches per game and had a habit of taking one of them for six. Steele was a close second in the Heisman voting to an incredibly overrated quarterback from Oklahoma who shall go unnamed, but managed to win DBOTY and help his team to a national championship finish that was capped off by a double reverse TD from 67 yards out that echoed Steele’s coming out party score from a year before.
College career statistics
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Professional career
DSFL career
NSFL career
| Ht | Wt | 40‑yd dash | 20‑ss | 3‑cone | Vert jump | Broad |
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| 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
205 lb (93 kg) |
Professional career statistics
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Achievements and records
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